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A. KOMP.

ORNAMENTING WOOD.

No. 358,678. Patented Mar. 1, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @rrieie.

ALBERT KOMP, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

ORNAMENTlNG WOOD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,678, dated March 1, 1887.

Application filed November Elli, 1886. Serial No. 219,944.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT KOMP, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ornamenting Wood, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the ornamenting of wood, as fully set forth in the specification and claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a piece of base wood provided with an ornamental contour. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of Fig. 1 and of a die. Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 2 before the veneer is pressed into the plan. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a modification. Fig. 5 is. a detail view of a contour.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The invention is applicable either in the case of so-called long wo0dthat is, wood which is being operated on on a face lying substantially parallel to the grain of the wood or in the case of so-called end woodthat is, wood which is being operated on on a face lying transversely to the grain of the wood.

In carrying out my invention 1 form a contour or ornamental outline, A. The contour can be formed by. cutting, stamping, sawing, or otherwise forming any suitable or ornamental figure, sueh, for example, as the figure of ahorse, a flower, or other object. The contour is formed of any suitable material, such, for example, as wood or sheet metal, paper, or papier-n1ach.

The contourAis placed upon a block, piece. or sheet of wood, B, either long wood or end wood. A veneer, D, having one face provided with glue or other suitable adhesive material, is then placed with its glued face upon the contour A. A suitable die, F, having a depression, the outline of which depression corresponds to the contour A, is then caused to press against the veneer D, the die being placed so that its depression rests at the veneer D at the place of the contour A. The pressure of the die presses or brings the portions of the veneer D which are not in contact with the contour A against the base or wood B. The adhesive substance on the veneer causes the veneer to adhere to the wood or base 13, and the entire (No model.)

article, when finished, has the appearance of an embossed block of material such as that composing the veneer. The embossed portion will resemble the contour A. I have found that the operation is facilitated by having the dies hot, and by allowing the parts to remain in the die until the die has become cool the veneer will befirmly secured in place.

Instead of placing only one contour in place at a time, a number of contours can be placed on a piece or strip of wood of suitable size, as seen in Fig. 4, a veneer of suitable size be ing secured to the base-piece or strip of wood, as above described. In order to accurately mark the places on the base-wood where the contours are to be applied, the dies may be caused to press onto the basewood before anything has been applied thereto, when the pressure of the dies 011 the base-wood will produce marks designating the places for applying the contour. I may also paste or secure a piece or layer of paper, parchment, or similar material, C, to the base-wood B, and on said facing '0 may be made marks. designating the places forapplying the contours A. The layer 0 may be markedbel'ore or after being applied to the base-wood.

The use of hot dies above referred to will be found necessary in case the veneer has any amount of rigidity.

By placing a contour on a basewood, as stated, I can give an embossed appearance to a piece of wood with comparatively small pressure, thus not creating any liability of splitting the wood because of excessive pressure. As comparatively small or slight press ure is needed in the abovedescribed embossing process, I am enabled to have one die adapted to produce at one stroke a large nun1- ber of embossings. As a great pressure is apt to cause thebase-wood to warp or split, it is an advantage to use a slight pressure and distribute the pressure equally over the basewood, as in the above-described process.

To emboss various parts of the veneer in different degrees, a number of contours may be laid one on the top of another prior to the veneer being placed on the contours. The superposed contours may differ from one another in size.

Heretofore in ornamenting wood it has been proposed to render veneer pliable by oils, then place the same on a wooden block and polish it for final surface effect, and then subject the same to pressure from a die containing the reverse of the desired ornament. This is not my invention and is notclaimed by me.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A base or block, B, of wood having an ornamental contour, A, arranged thereupon and provided with a sheet, D, of veneer overlying the ornamental contour, substantially as described.

2. A base or block, B, of wood having an ornamental contour, A, thereupon and provided with a veneer, D, resting on the contour and having its edges projecting beyond the contour and cemented to the base or block of wood, substantially as described.

3. A base or block, B, of wood having a sheet, 0, of paperor its equivalent thereupon, an ornamental contour, A, on said paper sheet, and the veneer D, bearing on the contour and having its edges projecting beyond the con tour and cemented to the base or block, substantially as described.

4. The process herein described of ornamenting wood, which consists in placing an ornamentalcontour on abase or block of wood, then placing on said contour a sheetof veneer and subjectingthe parts to pressure ina heated die, substantially as set forth.

5. The process of ornamenting wood by marking the wood with suitable outlines or' marks, applying a contour (one or more) to said marks, applying an adhesive face of a veneer to the contour, and subjecting the various parts to pressure in ahot die, substantially as set forth.

6. The process of ornamenting wood by applying to the wood a sheet or layer of paper or equivalent material provided with outlines or marks, applying a contour (one or more) to said marks, applying an adhesive face ofa veneer to the contour, and subjecting the various parts to pressure in a hot die, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT KOMP. [L. s]

Witnesses:

E. F. KASTENHUBER, A. FABER DU FAUR, Jr. 

